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The Council Episode 5 Review

Finales are almost inherently divisive. However you end a story, it seems there will always be a contingent of people that don't like what they're given. Even generally well-received conclusions like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows or Breaking Bad have their boisterous critics. The fifth and final act of The Council, "Checkmate," is unlikely to garner only a minority of displeased fans as it's starkly the worst episode of an otherwise good to even sometimes great season. There are still bright spots, but overall this new series sadly fails to stick the landing.

For three-fifths of the season, The Council grew its confounding mythology in fun and intriguing ways while layering its interesting chess match dialogue mechanics with great RPG elements. These gameplay moments have been consistently engaging, but the story around which they're wrapped began to slip at the end of episode three where an off-the-deep-end cliffhanger meant a fork in the road had appeared for The Council. The subsequent episode seemed to take the wrong route from that fork, and the finale fails to backtrack and find its way back to greatness.

Like episode four, this last episode feels rushed. It's evident in some tell all, show nothing moments between characters, as well as more technical issues such as characters stranded in T-poses or frozen standing and sinking into their chairs. One faulty scene in particular comes at the climax of the story, which means all immersion and intrigue, the story's forte for a while, are completely shattered when it matters most. Character moments make little sense at times, and even in a game where players make their own choices, you're often left with only several options that make no sense no matter what you choose. Some feel dishonest for the Louis you may have been building until now, while others don't always align with what you may have expected when you chose them. It's a mess, sadly, and squanders a lot of goodwill the game had earned for much of the year.

It really feels like the writing team bit off more than they could chew. There are a lot of exciting plot points to consider in every episode, but toward the end, they seem to have run out of time to tell them. That aforementioned fork in the road took this game from a well-told political thriller to a supernatural story, and that move, although it seemed exciting two episodes ago, was clearly the beginning of the end for the narrative in retrospect. Episode five just didn't have the time to tell the story, and as a result it is rushed, lacking continuity, and at times even inane.

That's not to say all is bad with The Council's finale. As has unrelentingly been the case for this new series, the puzzles in "Checkmate" are great, demanding once again an acute attention to detail that other games simply don't attempt, most notably even within this genre. They feel greatly rewarding as a result, and the answers are always in front of you if you have the patience to work them out and decode what's there.

There's also a good sense of this last episode taking into account all of your choices to this point. Dialogue chess matches are really hard here as you're likely low on all buffs by now, but you can play off all you've learned so far in a way that this genre really needs to get right, and "Checkmate" does that. Similarly, there are many alternate scenes in this episode based on what you've done until now, and even within this episode there is a lot of missable content for those who aren't scanning every area or have made certain choices. The Council's narrative accolades have certainly faded at the end, but a lot of what it introduces to the genre in terms of new RPG elements and detail-oriented puzzles and dialogue should become trendsetters for anyone else looking to fill the Telltale-sized hole in the gaming industry. These parts remain awesome no matter how rough the story gets.

The achievement list is once again just three unmissable chapter completion achievements, so if you've done all else you need to do from the base game's heftier list, you should finish with the 1,000 G here. Do make sure you use these last few chapters of XP to get a skill to level three if you haven't yet, but otherwise you should be well on your way to a pretty easy completion.